Felton Jarvis

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Well, now, you know that Elvis did record this away from his home studio, and he recorded it at American Studios, which pissed off Felton Jarvis, who's his regular mixer at RCA.

And Jarvis actually went ahead, and when he got the tapes, he messed with them.

He faded it in and out, and that's where you actually get that extra end part.

That, she said, was the beginning.

she sang with a group of friends who came to call themselves southern comfort jeannie green led it a singer a few years older married to the producer marlon green the holiday sisters mary and ginger filled out the sound four young white women as donna told it who sang so much like the voices on the soul records that some artists did not believe it until they walked into the room most were delighted their first big job was behind a young man who worked at a local hospital a singer named percy sledge on a slow aching ballad called when a man loves a woman donna remembered the day it reached number one by arnold's count it was the day before the grateful dead first walked into a studio to make a record of their own then atlantic records began sending artist after artist down to the shoals chair made an album there with donna among the singers boz skaggs made his first solo record there and inside the sleeve there is a photograph of her at work and then the call came from memphis elvis wanted them not in muscle shoals at all but at american sound studio in memphis where chips moman and felton jarvis were cutting the songs that brought him back the singers waited in their hotel rooms while the band laid down the tracks and then they were brought in By one account, the session for suspicious minds ran from four in the morning until seven, and took eight takes.

Elvis, Donna said, listened to each of their voices on its own, all the way through, and was kind about every one.

They thanked him very calmly.